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Fetty P Franklin Tells His Life Story (Full Interview)

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Fetty P Franklin Tells His Life Story (Full Interview)

Ad-libs are a vital, personal touch in music, giving songs authenticity and emotional depth. The artist emphasizes that while they don’t follow a structured strategy, they rely on instinct and audience reaction—removing ad-libs that don’t resonate. Their signature phrases like “You lie” and “Huh” have become iconic, with “Huh” being widely adopted across the industry, though the artist’s version stands out in tone and delivery. He reflects on how these ad-libs stem from his playful, sarcastic, and defensive personality, shaped by years of navigating hardship, including frequent evictions and familial struggles. This personality is deeply rooted in his upbringing in Charlotte, where survival, resilience, and humor were essential tools. He credits his success to personal grit, faith, and a refusal to give up, even during tough times like prison or poverty. Music became a lifeline, beginning with early influences from his uncle, who introduced him to rapping. Over time, he evolved from casual freestyle to a balanced approach, combining written rhymes and freestyle, with a 50-50 split. He notes that audience feedback—especially when a song is disliked—often signals which version is most authentic. Ultimately, ad-libs represent more than sound; they’re a reflection of his identity, resilience, and connection to real-life challenges.

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Now, what is your opinion on ad-libs in a song? Sometimes they need it, sometimes they not, you know. Well, a lot of times ad-libs make to give the song more life, you know, more energy. You get to understand the person more. You might hear a song, you might not even like the song, but you love the ad-libs. So ad-libs is important. Now, do you have a strategy when it comes to your ad-libs in your music? I mean, I don't want to say a strategy just comes up and you try to whatever sounds good in that little brief moment where ain't nothing's being said. I just roll with that and then I go back and listen to it and if I don't like it, I just take them out and that'll be the end of it. Now, be that as it may, even with that discretion. Do you have a signature ad-lib by any chance, a main ad-lib you're known for? Yeah, they'll be like, you lie. That you lie or that Frank, like Frank, I got another one like Huh? That Huh is very popular. Now, let's dissect these ad-libs a little bit further. Obviously, Frank is in regards to your stage name or money, things of that nature. But what about, or tell them the truth, whatever, right? But what about the Huh or the You Lion? Were you the first recording artist to ever do these ad-libs? You lied for sure, but I feel like every artist got a hunt and everybody, you know what I'm saying? Some people do it different. Some people got a, it's the, I feel like it's the same one, the Huh, the chills, the yell, the on, outlets kind of like fitting the same category. So everybody got them, you know what I'm saying? That's the people they're the on, it might be longer. Young Jesus chills, then Gucci man, you know what I'm saying? Say everybody got them, it just, whichever, you know what I'm saying, so. But that you lie or that, that's me. Even if somebody else did it, but they don't say like, you lie. They ain't doing it like that. Now, can you take the audience back on how that particular ad-lib of yours was created? Like, do you recall the first song you implemented it on or how that even came about? It, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it might be some like, a crazy line. You listen to, you're like, if you're pushing that good, then put it in the bag, maybe we can sell it. Like, you lie. So I'm saying, say, I'm saying, see? And some shit that you can be like, oh, you lying, your pussy's not that good. Feel what I'm saying? And what's been the reaction to any of these ad-libs from others that listen to your music? A lot of catcher, a lot of people be saying that when they see me out in the public, they try to, they mimic them and try to, you know, rap and sound, like me try to make that voice a different thing. But I don't think I sound like how they'd be trying to make me sound. Now, when it comes to collaborating with other recording artists, have you ever added any of your ad-libs to another artist's verse on the same song? Never. What is your opinion on that? Some artists do do that. I mean, if somebody would be like, but come and put a few ad-libs by, that's different, but I don't think I, me, why would I put ad-libs on your verse? I don't think it's, that's, that take away from me personally. I feel like I just take away from some type of resonality somewhere in there, you know what I'm saying? I'm an ad-lib of your songs, shit, they gonna think I wrote it too. Just curious there, but doesn't sound like you be a pose to that in the future if you were asked? But ad-libs, somebody should? Yeah, on the same song, a collaboration. Yeah, they payin' for it. I get on that motherfucker friend, shit, me. Yeah, yeah, I, what, what's your, what is it? My niggas from downtown, DJ Small Lives in the building. You know what I'm saying? Just something here. Yeah, yeah, yelling that bitch like DJ drama. DJ drama? What? I get out on that bitch. Now, this voice that you're, you know, I know you're being playful here and maybe even sarcastic that sort of thing here, but this voice that you have sounds very much like a DJ voice. Sounds like you could host somebody's project with this voice and even just these, you know, little examples you just mentioned, it sounds very natural for you. Was there a thought on ever DJing for you or being on the radio and some sort of capacity aside from being a recording artist? Never. Never wanted to do the turntay. It's the camera, man. You know, I'm just good with this camera thing and being like, when I'm being seen, I know how to operate with this camera. So it's like, you got the camera. So I'm going to always, it's just natural. You're going to look at me. You're going to smell if you need to feel me. Your attention need to be over here. But no, no DJ and that like that. And this personality that you have, where does this stem from? Are you able to pinpoint that? No, I was out born with it because I've been like this my whole life. This playful personality or this sarcastic personality? Yeah, I've been in the same way. Like, I don't know how to explain it. I just don't know how to explain it. I just been the same way. I make a joke out of anything. Like, shit, facing a lot of times, I'm like, what else to do? I just, I forgot what song it was, but when I was facing a lot of times, like, I was like, they're going on trying to give me them wheels. It's time I go to court. But it was dead ass here, though, because they'll try to give me them wheels. Them two, the life's them like, what would you do? But I'm going to go to court. They've been trying to give me them wheels. You know, as I just make a joke out of anything, that's just me. I could be fucking my girl and start like fuck right and fart in a minute. And now you feel me nice, I hold and now we gotta get, I'm just, that's just me, man. I just like to, I like to smile, to hide, to, to, to hide the bullshit that I really go through. I'm not really hired to bury it. So it's just my defensive mechanism. I used that to try to smile a lot, because if I do well, I'll start thinking about shit like that, I ain't going to have a good day. Now, you mentioned, a significant other here in this example. Don't know if you were serious or that's actually happened, where you make a fart sound while, you know, you're being intimate with her. But, I was just saying, man, guy, I ain't like I'm over at a stroke and, and put a, stroke, put in my window and I'm just like, you know, it's crazy. They'll just hypothetically speak and I ain't over at the stroke. You know, they also say when it comes to like jokes and sarcasm and stuff, you know, there's like a little bit of truth in all of that. So didn't know if that came from personal experience. It definitely hasn't happened before. It definitely happened before. Now there's shit. Now, when it comes to significant others, has your personality ever been a deal breaker for some? Like, maybe they thought you were playing too much or too sarcastic or too mean because, you know, sometimes a playful personality or sarcasm by the opposite sex can feel like it's a little more of a mean personality. No, I guess as I grow, shit like that, you come to the terminology that women are just super sensitive. No matter how tough or hard they, you know, try to put on that little coat because of the men that they don't been around, they had no choice but to wear the pants. So, you don't, you don't know that they was this sensitive because they come around you with them. You know what I'm saying, but they chest out holding their pants like they got balls, but women are sensitive. And once you realize that as a woman, you just keep that in your head as a woman. But yeah, women are sensitive as hell, but I don't be, that ain't my problem because you got to be goof as hell too. You need to be laughing at everything. Have you ever been with a female that's just as funny as you are or maybe even funnier than you? No, not funnier than me. No, never. And, you know, speaking of being funny here, has there ever been a thought of maybe progressing with that and some honing in on that in some form or fashion and maybe like comedy and things that nature like, you know, stand up and things that need, has that been a thought? There are some recording artists who have gone that route. I mean, I'll be, I'll be thinking about it, you know what I'm saying. I'll be thinking about it, but you know what I'm saying. And if I did think about it, I wouldn't tell you because you can't tell them what you're going, but you can show them what you're being. And what about when it comes to your immediate family as well? Is there anybody that matches this personality of yours in your immediate family or maybe one that's even a little bit more funnier, a little more sarcastic than even you? Yeah, I would say my, my little brother, it's like a clown, he ridiculous. It's kind of like the same, but like, yeah, I think he way more goofy than me. What's it like when you two are together and it's goofiness on goofiness? Don't come around this without your shit together. That's all I can say. Don't come, don't come around here half-assin. You motherfucking, don't come around here with your motherfucking, oh, your tank tucked in your drawers and shit. Don't come around here like that man, you know what I mean? That's our, I don't know. Just don't come around, it's looking out fucked up because I'm, man. roast beef in your ass, you know what I'm talking about. - Who's better at roasting between you two? - I give them my little brother. He always been good at it, you know what I'm saying? Even like who's younger, shit, y'all. That's been his thing, like he was good at it. One day he said some shit. I don't know, he was just getting on my ass. I'm talking about terrible, you know what I'm talking about this all the time. I just made a little shot like this, why you smell like bark, do it dark. We looked around, and we just burst out laughing at everybody. Now that was funny because what the fuck is bark, do it dark. What the fuck is that? You don't even, I just, I just, I ain't know what to say. I had to say something, bark, do it dark. My little brother got that. - All right, well, you know winding the questions down here just about the subject of ad-libs. Is there anything else you want to mention about them before we move on to a different subject here? - No, shit, it will be me and that soon, baby. - Now, when it comes to your catalog of music, what do you consider your biggest song to be at this point? - Right now it's Jimmy and Johnny. - And why do you consider that to be your biggest, which your metric system there? - I want to say it's the first song that I have the first single song that I've got into a million streams, millions of views on YouTube, get out of recognition, everybody does. Basically, everybody who I was looking, who I might ride around listening to, nowadays they probably ride, ride, listen to me because of that song. - Now, when it comes to this song in particular, and you may have been asked about it, quite a bit over the last few times, or a few months, and so on and so forth, but are there any unknown facts or stories in regards to this song that's never been publicly mentioned before. - What do you mean? - Like, you know, some artists, they go on promo runs, they get asked a lot of questions about a song, but as much information as there is about the song, is there anything that's never been revealed about it? - Well, I wasn't even gonna do that song. That song was just tucked away, but then I had let my partner Eddie Peele's here, he from the men, but I let Eddie Peele's here. He was like, man, you better drop this shit, but you're gonna blow up all that, man, what a, 'cause I've been, I'm like, you know, whatever you know this shit, go this shit, like hitting it, like hitting a lot of it. You might hit it, you might not, you know what I'm saying, but yeah, that's how that went down. Eddie Peele's told me to, but do this, him in sign of Frank Prupp, or I promise he's gonna blow up, they're thinking of changing who I like, whatever, did this shit, all that, oh shit, nigga, you was right. - And you actually told them that, too? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think he called me, and I was like, well, I told you about that video, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think he told me this shit. - Now, does he play any special role in your music career? - I mean, we did a couple of songs. We got to, we got to song a two together. - Okay. - And we all, yes, we all play a several, 'cause we all are from the Carolina's. So we all play a role in each other career for real, 'cause the more we stay together, the better we will be. - And anything else, as far as any unknown facts or stories in regards to this song, and could be in relation to a creating, recording, or releasing it, is there anything else the public doesn't know about it yet? - There's five parts to the song. That's what I, there's five parts. - And this is the first part. - Yeah, the whole world, only the other one. There's four more of the parts. - Got it. Do you have a release date you want to share on the next installment of this? - Of Jim and Johnny? - Yes. - No, I can't tell you that. I can't tell you that. - And is this a true story? Is this based on a true story at all? - It's definitely a true story. - It's a true story. - Got it. Do the people this story is based on know that? - Yeah. - What's been their reaction to this song? - I mean, yeah. - See, I can't really tell you all that because then I'll be telling you the story. - Got it, okay. - Feel them saying I can't get, then I'll be giving you the hints and pieces about what they went on. So, I can't reveal that. - Not yet, maybe the next interview. - For sure. - Okay, but, you know, it's 2025 now, so I got to ask you this. Was there any AI technology used in the creation of this song? - I don't know, nothing about it. - Just curious there. Now, what do you think when you zoom out and look back at this song? What do you think led this song to get as far as it has today? Aside from just Eddie, you know, giving you his gut intuition and-- - Because the game being missing, you know, the truth, the real, or somebody that's different, that's doing something that anybody's doing. And that's what this song basically showed me that with this song, this right here, anybody doing it. So, I feel like that's probably like a little, like a gift to mine. People wanting to hear my stories, you know what I'm saying? So, whatever. - Or storytelling period? - Right, but you can't just be going and talking about, yeah, we was riding down the street, big of the bop, we was riding down the street, a chick of the chop, we was riding down the street with my click of the clock, we was riding down the street, it was hickity hot, we was, "Now, my one hit that shit." You know what I'm saying? You got to make it make sense, we got to believe. When you, you know, otherwise, we go, "I don't know," but some people can get away with it, some people don't know, but, storytelling, right, right, right, but don't be making up stories and fields and things, and, you know what I'm saying? - But as simplistic as that example, as you just provided, there might be someone in the audience that wants to hear eight more bars of that. - You got me fucked up. (laughs) And, no way, hey, we'll go ahead and take it, you know what I'm saying, take these four bars, highlight my manager, we're gonna clear it. You don't got to play, I just want, I need my percentage, for sure. - And just for transparency, your manager is off camera to the side of you during this interview. You wanna shout out his name? - Go look at my bio on my Instagram, Facebook, I'm gonna go check it out, our bookings, our features, click it and press, 'cause they don't listen, people don't listen to read, but when you see some shit, you might understand it better. Go to 50p Freaklin, bio, features, booking. There you go. Stop DMing me, window shopping, bro. I'm gonna start blocking you, motherfucker, you know? I'm gonna start sending you out to the block party, make it, that should be aggravating. Or, I can hand over my Instagram page to a man, and she'll let him deal with it. I think that might be a better, you know what I mean? But yeah. - And speaking of Instagram, you already shared your official profile, but do you wanna share any social media handles, username, screen names to other prominent social media platforms you use just in case there's, you know, fraud, scammy pages? - Okay, I don't look, nothing. YouTube, Instagram, fakeyp Freaklin, fakeyp Freaklin. - No Twitter, no TikTok. - No, p Freaklin, 66, I think. I'm tired, tooday, never but a porn site, man. I'm tired of toodafore. That's how I'm gonna get on to the bang bros. - What the hell, I don't want to, I'm tired of toodafore. Did you got a girl, you probably wouldn't go to school or probably used to like, didn't even know she would like that. She on Twitter but booty, bow, naked. She got a motherfucking drug. She got a motherfucking drug and deal dope, Twitter, ain't, you know. - And it's X now. I used Twitter incorrectly, it's called X. Formerly known as Twitter. - Formerly known as Twitter. - But TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, I mean, there's some other platforms, are you on any of these? - What's the TikTok, John? - We'll get the official TikTok from you here. Take your time. Wanna make sure, again, no fraud or scammy pages, people are logging on to. - Yeah, right, right, just, P-Frank, 626 on the TikTok. P-Franklin, 626 on the Twitter. Faded P-Franklin on the YouTube. Faded P-Franklin on Instagram. Facebook, I guess they got that thing connected from Instagram and Facebook, but I did not own the Facebook page. I did not own the Snapchat, none of that, you know what I'm saying? - What about the 626 numeric figure there? What's the meaning behind that? - Numeric figure. - Yeah. You know, I'm a little slow, man, what the fuck is that mean? - Those numbers, 626, what's the meaning behind that? - That's my address where I was born at. 626 Love of Mine Street. That's my address where I was born at, for real. - And we'll talk about your origin story a little bit further in this conversation, but just to rewind here, when it comes to this song of yours, you're biggest at this point in your career. But just to, you know, dot the eyes and cross the tees here, was it a particular platform you recall releasing it on? - Yes, on the radar, I wouldn't have done that. I did it on that platform and it just took off for real. And before on the radar I did the street juice. It was his platform called Street Juice. Now he got waived, you know what I'm saying? That's what made me like, what am I going to take this on the radar? On the radar I got, you know what I'm saying? I guess a bigger platform but Street Juice popped it out. Then I took it on the radar. And was this your first time maybe using that as a research strategy or marketing strategy for a song of this nature? I didn't even look at it like that for real. I was just going up there just to see if I'm going to do this hopefully. I guess some recognition of my foot get the shrimp on my shit. Well yeah, and it worked out just like that. And pardon the brain fog here but is there a sample on that beat it all? Go ahead, on that. Yes, on you're not in that song. No, that is original. Okay. And were you assigned to a distribution company or record label at the time? No. And anything else you want to mention about this song? Actually a lot of questions about is there anything else you want to add onto what you've said just in regards to this song? Stay tuned for part two. And you know as big as this song has been for you at this point, are there any flaws in this song whenever you listen to it again? Is there anything you look back in? I wish I could have changed that or said this or. No, not really. Okay. No regrets. And you know one other thing here, is there a song in your collection that you feel should have been bigger than what it was? This is a song that you didn't think was going to get that far and it's been the farthest for you. But has there been a song? Man, you thought was going to be a home runner or grand slam for you and it just didn't amount to what you had in mind for it. I mean, I guess maybe a few. I would say I must say true. That's a good record. The song shake it. 510 was going somewhere, but we had some unforeseen circumstances, problems, whatever, but yeah. And you know for those in the audience that are getting to know you here for the very first time and might want to check out some other work for you, those might be some songs to dive into a rabbit hole for you. For those. All right. Now I want to dive into this origin story of yours and just get a little bit more background history on you here. Now you already mentioned, you know, what 626 stood for in a previous conversation, but you know for those in the audience getting to know you here for the very first time that didn't see that portion of questions. Care to share where you were born. Charlotte, no Carolina. And care to share where you were raised as well. Yes, okay, and does it get any further than that for you like a particular portion of Charlotte, maybe something specific. I was born on the like on the north side raised on the west side, you know what I'm saying. So my whole life has been like that most of my family been on the north side, but I always lived on the west side. And can a share where you reside these days. Yes, right now, still in Charlotte. I'm still in the city. Okay. And what about the west side in particular? What age range do you think you were raised just on the west side for. Age range. Yeah, like sometimes people will move around during their upbringing. So they might be on one side for like five to 10 years old or five to fifteen. But this north side first eight years from eight years old and probably like from 11. The west side from the west side back to the north side for about six months. From there six months, we got kicked out. Now we back on West Boulevard for about two years from two years from West Boulevard. We leave West Boulevard. Now we go back to P Mark Cuff for about a year. Back to P Mark Cuff was the north side. Now we're going to where we go. Amy Jane. Tucket season, Tucket season, Roger Fair, Roger, you know what I'm saying? So now I'm just all the damn neighborhood because we keep getting put out and shit. What were you guys getting put out for about a big shit? That shit hard, man. A big shit. You know how they go? A big shit. Time to get out. You're going to pay the rent. Now there are some in the audience that don't know how it goes. Okay. This is when you don't pay your rent. Boom. They come and give you a letter. So you got to go to court. You know, as they don't go to court, now they come and they got them padlocked or shit. Without your shit in there because you didn't pay them people. Now you're not getting nothing. But we kept getting evicted until my mama. I think see I got on the section A plan to where they can start helping you with your rent and shit. So now we are a little stable. Mama got on the feet a little bit then to a point where she ain't really needed. So now you mentioned a in eviction situation that some have not gone through. Some have gone through and you may have experienced these two so we'll just go over. Go over them. Sometimes people get that letter that notice on their door. They're about to be evicted. They'll take all their positions and move out before. You know, there's any forceful process there. Then there's a scenario like you just presented where. That lock is on that door and all your worldly possessions are locked inside that building there. And then there's some where it's more forceful than that. Maybe some sort of authority figure like the police will come and grab all the items that's in that building and push it out to the curb. Have you experienced all of those? Never. They never get like put out shit outside and my mom was always on point for this. They never put out shit. We never been like padlock or all that shit in there like that. Never got that. No, no, no, when they come with the mail, my mom knew that she wasn't going to have the ring money. We're going to another spot. We can sit around waiting to come kick us out. Now, for you, you kind of shed some light on maybe the answer to this next question, but we'll still, you know, ask you this formally here. Just in case you feel like you haven't answered it enough, but what was that really like for you? Growing up throughout Charlotte because of all your back and forth and things of that nature, but just zooming out. What was that really like? I mean, sure. Just to, I want to say regular, who is the story? It's the same, like the same type of story that you are all over the America, like, you know, the same struggle. Everybody go through it. It's in every neighborhood. It's in every city. It's in every corner. It's the same shit just so happen. I was the one who was actually going through. I ended up being the oldest child. So I dealt the city into the stick, you know what I'm saying? It ain't done too much of a difference. I was just strong enough to stand up and then go through it, you know what I'm saying? Without, without folding, basically, that's the only difference that I am folding. And you know, because of your, do you want to share how many number of evictions you think it was? What's your experience? About five or six of some shit like that ain't no telling. You know, because you've gone through that so many times, relatively speaking, what do you want to say to someone in the audience that's facing their first eviction notice? You know, you have to pay that rent three weeks ago on it tomorrow. You knew that shit there, man. You just get yourself together. But a lot of times life being handled in people's situation and what they got to choose like your kids ain't got no food or some shit. And you might have to buy a fuck it. I might have to dip in this right quick to make sure my baby. So it's life comes at you so many type of ways, you know what I mean? And what about, you know, section eight? You mentioned that here. You experienced that. Do you recall how long you were under section eight four? Probably them in my whole life. It wasn't shit. It wasn't that long because if my mom didn't have it, my grandma had it. Somebody had kept some section eight somewhere going on around that month. Or you can believe that the food stamps the week. Yeah. All right. The government since it was part of that. I guess it's just my daddy went to prison. That's basically what my life being consists of from five years old until my daddy got out of prison. But I was on my way to prison. So it wasn't like it's like my whole life has been like this child decided I wanted some money. So I'm doing something else. When it comes to that section eight experience you've had again, there's someone in the audience that might be going through that for the very first time themselves. Is there anything a core circumstances could be different for everyone? But is there anyone? Is there anything you want to say to someone about to experience section eight from there? You don't let the world make you feel like you're a bad person or you less than because you're on section eight. That is not correct. You know saying legends. A lot of athletes. A lot of a lot of successful famous people have came from the bottom of slums right there with you. Do not give up on yourself. That's where it started. That's how you know what you built what you built up what you made of. You can come from the bottom because that's you can come from right there and rise up. You have no other place but to go. It's the top. So my advice is you don't don't. Don't look down, look up. Don't be sitting around, pouting and putting. Get your ass up, go get on your grind. The grind is free. It don't cost you nothing to get up off your ass and go grind. So my advice to you, just keep grinding and strive for a better life. Don't settle for nothing. - And speaking of via struggle once again here, just dealing with your life, right? Looking back at your upbringing. What do you think was the bottom point for you? What do you think was your lowest point or most negative moment growing up for you in Charlotte specifically? - The lowest point, negative moments. I don't know, you gotta rephrase that. The lowest point. - Yeah, okay, so when someone grows up, there may be a high point for them and a low point. What was your lowest point growing up for you? - When my daddy went to prison when she hit for real. - What age were you at the time when you experienced that? - Five, six. - Were you present when he was actually arrested? - No, I wasn't there. - Okay. - Well, she just happened so fast though, 'cause I turned five, birthday in October. I turned five. He dropped me off my balloon with the healing. I threw up in the sky, and I didn't see my daddy again for like another 20 years. That's how I got like shit like that. The next day, I knew he got 20 years. - And he's out now? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - And during that time, did you maintain a relationship with him throughout his incarceration? - Yeah, my aunt and me, before she passed, well, her whole life, well, our whole life, she made sure that we knew our daddy was, we respected him, we had a relationship. So we went for a, I definitely wouldn't knew nothing too much about my daddy like that. - And was a state or federal prison for him at the time? So he might not have been close to you. - Oh, hell no, fuck no, he was never around here. - How far away was he, as far as where he was stationed at? - He'd been 10 hours, 11 hours, and been all over. - Throughout his bid, would you have a physical visitation with him at all? - Yeah, we would have had a few, I want to say two, two times, two or three, but I can guarantee twice. - Now, I've heard of different perspectives when it comes to those type of visits. You know, there's sometimes, sometimes family members that are locked up, they don't want other family members to see them in that type of position or looking like that. - Right. - Some family members don't want to see their loved ones in that predicament either. So there might not be any physical visitation. And there's some that really want that. They want to see that, they want that interaction, so on and so forth. - I've seen people that use that shape of excuse of why they didn't come, or why they didn't want you to come, or something, you know what I'm saying? But that could be very true, but I also see people use that excuse tonight, like, oh man, why didn't you come see me, man? Why didn't you locked up and okay? Why didn't you see me no matter then? You know, it's just something that you didn't see no pictures? Nothing, you ain't thought about me, you know what I'm saying? So out of sight out of mind, that's how that worked. - So back then for you, was that something you wanted? You wanted to see your father, you saw on and so forth? - For sure. - Got it. And did you have another male figure in your life during his incarceration? - My uncle, everybody was, I mean, I did, but everybody wasn't like, he was one of my uncle, so we were not, he was back in front of the prison for murder and weed. Other uncle said, those other uncle still in, still in our Christmas, it wasn't like, no, yeah, no. Wasn't a peachy creamy, but like, oh yeah, you got to be good. Okay, I got you nephew, you're going to be fucking old. - Now, when your father comes home, what was that relationship like? - I mean, it was cool, not first seen him. He was like, yeah, like what you got in your pocket? I pulled out my money and I was like, all right, that was up. That was up, just making sure he ain't raised no, what do you say, no? He said, "Sunshit." Oh, he makes sure I ain't raised no bust as niggas. Sunshit like that, and then he was like, "You out here in these streets, you out here have a pocket for the money." Like, he wasn't surprised. Like, you out here dipping dabbing in these streets and shit. But the next week, I caught dope charges of going to prison. It was crazy how life worked. - And you actually end up doing prison time or you're just facing prison time? - No, I end up going to prison after that. - You did? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was on there, I say about, I get about four, five months and I was on my way to prison. - Did he end up seeing or visiting you while you were locked up? - Yeah, I know. He on federal parole, he can't do that. - Got it. - But the dynamic there, if he wasn't, he might have been. - I'm pretty sure, yeah. - Now, how much prison time did you end up doing yourself? - Nineteen months. - And sounds like state prison there? - Yeah, state. You weren't there like that. It was just enough time to get your ass, let you know. So I did like a, yeah, some change in a jump in a little bit of months in the county. - And is there a difference there between county jail and state prison? - Yeah, state prison, you can smoke weed, you can fuck holes. I might call you a couple of times, but you can get you some pussy. You can get you some money, shit. You smoke some weed, you fuck holes, you know what I'm saying? And get some money. And you smoke weed, you can fuck holes. That's in prison, but you got to be like, everybody, you ain't going to prison the fuck. Nigga's standing, how the fuck in there? No, you wasn't, nigga, you're not. Everybody ain't fucking in prison, dawg. Not no woman, not, it might be, you know, everybody ain't getting, no, fuck, no. You got to be him. Meaning, you just got to be the, you know, you just got to be one of the guys, but prison ain't for me, bro. I'm gonna fuck, I don't care what you, what? That's your name for me. They ain't nothing to be glorified. They ain't got, they ain't even no time. It just enough, it was just enough time to put me in the system. So now I've been locked up for what, over a year in a day. I don't know they didn't change it, but back then you got to be locked up over a year, for at least a year in a day for them to make you a federal inmate or whatever. But I don't know they don't switch that shit up now. They're my points so high. I ain't fuck with them people. And care to share where you were stationed at, County Jail and state prison at the time. Well, make them burn, they're in size, baby. Fucking. Spend there, poke you, sinner, shout out to the brown creek, like shit like that. Now what about survival? Even though that time was limited for you. I mean, real man, you good, but who's to say like you fucking ain't a walk on the wrong side? If you're a man, you know how to carry yourself, you're good. I don't know the prison stories, like how the dead shit do not go like that, but don't get it twisted. It can't go like that, you know. I don't see him up for the loose day whole. Not because I was outside because he was standing in front of the fucking TV. Was there a warning for this person that was in front of the TV like that? A warning. Yeah, like, hey, put your, put your head down because if you don't, something bad's about to happen. I guess he didn't know. He didn't know. He thought he was tough. He thought he was tough and it was just old to me. I guess he had been in that motherfucker for about 40 years. Everybody knows him, so he been in that motherfucker. He and the cut just watching TV. But you gotta listen to it from your radio over there. That's all you get to hear it. But he not watching it, but he listen to it. And he read the newspapers over there with his legs. 'Cause like old man, motherfucker coming out, twitching that motherfucker's back on the TV, standing in front of that motherfucker. All right, I get the twitching that motherfucker, he told the man, "Chain that motherfucker, you gonna do all the talking shit up?" Old man, lift his head up. You say, "I want you, you need to turn that thing, ain't gonna do shit." Old man, put his glass back on. Next thing you know, now we're gonna open door 'em. Next thing you know is about two, three, the moon, and all you hear is, ah, ah, ah, help, help, help, help. Now they flip the lights on. Old man over there, he doesn't got them, giving them the works. He don't pull, he don't push them all fucking, buy something on the way with baby oil. He put baby oil in the microwave. Boy, that shit real, oh man, do it on the motherfucker face while he was sleep. Then he put the cover on his smash to get his face on. He ripped it, motherfucker. cover number. But as he got the cover, he just hit him out. That's why he would help, help by the time they cut the lights off. Got them. He just get the put and then shut off number skin. Come on. Then it's I come on. I'm like, God, damn. I ain't never watched it. I didn't want to look at that motherfucker TV. And then the eye socket came out with his skin. Just a whole bunch of bullshit. You know what I'm saying is you you don't want to deal with that man. You got to take a shot with your boots on. You don't you don't want to do that. That ain't what you want to do. You don't want to be taking those showers with your boots on. That's crazy, ain't it? Yeah. Ain't in life with nobody. Survivor rate is like 80% of you ain't gang, gang, gang, you mind your business and you ain't yeah. Mind your business. Don't be like them looking at them. Don't be just mind your business. The same shit applied to people in the real world. Mind your business. Now, all right, uh, when it comes to Charlotte, I do want to. I'm here. Ain't nobody fucking with me. Can't have my I've been I've been beat to hunger for y'all motherfuckers. But look, let's get this. Let's let's let's start here right now. Can't nobody focus me. Stop. Thank you y'all can focus me. Stop acting like y'all can focus me. I you don't even have to give me your props. I don't want your flowers. I don't want your props. I don't want your credit. You can't uh, uh, uh, uh, I don't need your voucher. I don't need none of that from nobody. But stop doing that. Yeah, I don't need it. You know, you know, you ain't gonna do that. But when they come to this city of Charlotte, shit, I'm saying I just be too humble with it. But Now, how are you able to ultimately survive that upbringing in Charlotte? Because there are some who don't make it. I was just blessed. I can't say the person say like I'm just a special person that, you know, shit, just the brother didn't come through the door or small crazy shit, uh, uh, the brother didn't come through the door motherfucking the judge whatever I beat the case or whatever have it or the witnesses changed it. Whatever. Some shit like that, you know what I'm saying? I ain't, I ain't no special. I just have faith in, uh, I got blessed. I got blessed with, you know, with the second chance. That's all. With four from six chances. But at the time you, you get tired of them starting over, you know what I'm saying? And everybody don't get a chance. But you got one time that got them do do do do game over. That's your ass. Now, you use the phrase blessed here. Do you follow a religion by any chance? For a minute, I did, but now I'm like, you know what? I just believe in God, you know what I'm saying? I'm just going to be stuck with what I believe in. And that's just cool with me, you know what I'm saying? Care to share how you were raised, were you raised to follow religion in particular? Right, right, right. The Bible, Christianity, you know, stuff like that. And I was mother side of the family, father side of the family, both. Both. My grandmother was a, my great-grandmother was a pastor. She had her own church. Um, yeah, she raised everybody and she raised all her kids in the church, but they don't mean anything because all my aunts and uncles smoked dope. So, like, they don't know what I'm saying. Just because people praise them, God, they don't mean they ain't getting high. They don't say I'm more for good. It's not a line to say, hey man, you know what I'm saying? So, and this great-grandmother of yours, mother side of the family or father. That's my daddy. It's my daddy-grandmother. That's my grandmother. It's my grandmother, mother, Ella May. God bless you, baby. Ella May, you know. And uh, when it came to Christianity being raised under that religion, did it get any more specific than that? Like a particular branch or denomination under Christianity, perhaps? No, because it's like, it's like the biggest thing was, it doesn't matter if you were a Christianity or a Baptist, if you didn't believe in God, that's what that was like. You tripping, you know what I'm saying? You don't believe in nothing or you think you're that slick, but some people, everybody believes it's different than you got to understand that, because I know you ain't got to believe in shit, but if you do good by people, good shit going come back to you. If you do bad, bad shit's going to come back to you, you know what I'm saying? Now, there are some people who say things like, don't know if I'll make it to see the age of 18, 21, for example, maybe 25, things of that nature. Did you ever have any of those thoughts growing up yourself in Charlotte? Was there an age you might not quite see at one point you thought? No, I, I felt like I never think I was going to get killed for that. I ain't putting death, I ain't never did that. I probably said that my fucking I ended up doing a lot of time of being in prison, but I ain't never said I'm not going to make it the next couple of years. Fuck no, I'm going to tell that nigga he going to kill me. Fuck no, I ain't never spoke death on my life. I don't know, that's just me. And be that as it may, knowing what you know now, hypothetically speaking here, what would you have said to your younger self back then if anything? Ain't no, we are the world, we are the future, we can conquer the world, ain't no, we don't know, ain't no, we. Fuck that, think about yourself first. Then you can help others. I'm going to try to help others and you need help. Who fuck going to help you? I would, I would, I would drill that in my head, stop trying to help people, because I feel like a lot of my problems have become from trying to help people. I'm a lot of beef, a lot of gunsling and shit out and bring in because of other people. It don't be because of motherfucker's situation that I have with a nigga. No, I'm saying I always, it always go another way, but when somebody else called it, not me real beef because of somebody else, that shit did, or I'd be broke or something because I didn't get him, I didn't get him a nigga half a month shit, hopefully he's going to pay me a bunch of shit back, but he doesn't pay his bills and try to pay me on the back on the back of him, but he's, now he has plays and come back fast enough, now I'm like, oh fuck, that's all good, we're going to get it back. Hey, oh no, that ain't no way to be thinking, man, now I'm taking food out of my people to try to help you. You ain't thinking about my people, when I'm thinking about yours, the math ain't matching. Now on the opposite end of the spectrum, what was the top point for you during your upbringing in Charlotte? What was your highest point or most positive moment growing up in that area for you? We talked about the bottom point, what was the top, if there was a top for you? Yeah, I guess when I realized I can make the same amount of money that I just took from a person and way less than amount of time, that's when I like start like understanding life a little bit more, you know what I'm saying, you know what, I might just hustle myself because every time I try to take something from a motherfucker, I always end up in jail or some old bad shit might happen, you know what I'm saying? And what about music? Would you also consider that a top point for you in your upbringing at all or? You know, it just kind of helped, you know what I'm saying? I ain't never talking about it. I actually just thought about it on the way up. I recorded my first song when I was 16, it was like, I got that drove, that was like and my uncle used to be rapping, so I remember I recorded this shit at my grandma house and she, I remember that. I got that drove, I remember that. So I kind of always been fucking around with music. It was just this one particular dude who was basically telling me like, well bro, you should rap, you know what I'm saying? So music was like, I ain't never stopped by hurting that up until I got with the right people and I started showing. See, my whole music career, shit, I wasn't really, really taking that shit like that until I started actually learning the business. Then when I learned, start learning the business, now I'm taking it to another level. It took me about, well, 7, 8, 9 years to start paying attention to the business. I'm thinking I'm gonna blow about for a cross-speed. I'll speed this real shit. Ain't nobody speeding that real shit like me. I'm not really, that shanked you know what? You got an expensive hobby. That's all you got. Do you want to shout out the name of the person of this dude? You mentioned that kind of encouraged you to keep going on the music side of things? Fuck no. Yeah, I know. I don't fuck with that nigga. And you know, when it comes to music, do you recall the first genre of music? Way back when, even maybe when you were a little, that you were first introduced to. Probably just a new dog. I don't fuck the gin and juice. I was saying like that. I would say that was probably the first song that I can say I can remember that I was rapping. So much. Yeah shit like that. That was my first song I can say. Was a new dog with some old shit. Was that a song one of your parents were playing at the time that you liked? My Uncle Jason used to always have all the shit because he was, you know, we were like six years younger than me so he kind of, he was like a older brother but he was here my uncle. So, right. six years older than me. So, it seemed like when he was like 13, I probably was what, seven. So, I'm seven years old. My older 13, he got them playing with a half a brick or nine, now I'm saying 13. So, he's a little bit advanced, you know what I'm saying? All the other uncles. So, I got a different type of, you know what I'm saying? He hung there for you. This is how you do this and do it. It is the same type of shit. So, I wouldn't say, I wouldn't say that it was something particular if that made any sense. Just curious, fast forwarding, have you had a chance to meet Snoop Dogg at all yet? And, you know, what led also for you to take the business of music a little bit more seriously and dive into that? Because, like you mentioned, there are some, this is an expensive habit. They don't go further into making this some sort of career choice or career path. It's just something they do when they have time or an opportunity to do, they do it, but for you, what led to you diving a little bit deeper with the business side of it? I've been doing music for five and six years and not making the fucking dime. You tripping. Some got to change. Now, you start thinking about all the videos, you then shout, all the money you don't put into your time. All the clothes you know about, all the trips you know too. Add that shit up for five years and see it and yeah, that's it. They were like, I'm something right. Because he can't wrap up for fuck, but he know the hustle is shit better than I can hustle my shit. So, it really, it's the, that's basically the same shit. It's like you get a brick, I get a brick. We got the same price. We got the same content. Boom. Who gonna make the most money? It's not about who make the most money. It's about who get off and do it again. And again, and again, me. I wouldn't get off. I just got to do it. To do it with my problem. I wouldn't get lost. So I feel realized how to move and swoop and groove and get off. I'm here. But you know, there are some that are on the opposite of that example or analogy or equation. If something's not working for them for five or six years, if they invested money, time, blood, sweat tears, so to speak, into something and they don't see something coming back off of that, they stop. They quit. They never touch it again. What got you to just keep going? Me knowing the fact that what I was rapping about and what I was spitting about, me knowing what I, the type of origin when I bring it to the game, there's nowhere being around. I was like, I knew for a fact. Ain't nobody like, nobody, nobody in the higher up's having heard of me. Or yeah, that, that was in my dollar. Ain't no way to do it hurting me. Because if you did, look what you putting out, look who your audience is. Ain't no way you ain't hurting me. So that, that, that kind of helped. And I had got to the point where I started loving it, started loving it. So now I like the higher sound. I like the one I, when I said, because the shit they said, I don't even know them. I ain't never seen you on no more fucking I10. I ain't never seen you coming down 95. I don't even know you. I, I never seen you drive to Detroit. I never, I never seen you, uh, nothing. I don't know you. I don't know you, but I, I know I was shit on this paper. It's real. And then, I don't go fuck if you don't believe it. Because I don't want you to believe it that, that much. But, you know what I'm saying? But yeah. And he got to that point and it's time to go on. He'd be like, damn, if I start over, or if I stop, if I, okay, look, if I'm going, this defense line, if I'm going, I get have one stop. I got to go all the way back and then go do something else. Look, look how low, but, but the defense line right here. So I, I just got to keep my, my, it might get a little harder to get there and they start, I might going down and might start giving you little mazes of shit, but I'm still going. You just can't never stop giving up on yourself. Basically, how hard do you believe in yourself? Do you, do you really believe that you can make it deep down inside? Everybody's going to say, like, yeah, I believe I can make it, but shit me. I'm just, man, hell, no, I'm just like, I was just a nigga, uh, who just rapping. I ain't think I, my fucker, really, but like, you know what I'm saying? Because even though you, you, you, you wanted to happen to, you think like they're gonna, they got no choice. This shit is not guaranteed. You, you, just something I could put a half a million dollars behind you and, and your record won't even go across the street. The motherfucker won't even go penny. You know, gold, brown, silver, it won't even go penny. They didn't put out. You can be the, you can rap good. They probably did all the shit but they didn't even, you probably did everything. But the people don't like it. You can't make them fuck with you. So it's time to go on and shit like that. You had signs, you know, I prayed about it as God for signs in that. And then me knowing that the fact that I don't stop so many times due to unforeseen circumstances or what I had going on in the streets. I knew that that was a hinder. If I can, if I can, if I can, if I can get to a point where I can 100% focus on music, I can get them because I feel like I can get all the way in that shit like that. But if I got to rap two weeks, streets, two weeks, streets, two, it ain't working like that because I'm, I'm ping pong or too bad. And uh, what were some of those signs that you received that you were on the right path? Oh, I know you prayed about it and things that nature. But what were those signs or those that kept you going? It might, it might be people who, who at least respect my, my reach out like a bigger artist or, or somebody, a bigger, um, somebody who's bigger, um, for us in entertainment, might reach out and say something and they might give me motivation. I'm like, oh damn, if he listens to it, or he'll be listening to it, or they're in the NFL, they listen to it. Here it can be, they listen to it, or he'll be a bigger rapper, they listen to it. Everybody doesn't, damn, who the fuck ain't, what the fuck? Why why just gotta keep going? Interesting you say that too because how many people actually speak up versus ones that don't? For every artist, celebrity, whatever that reached out to you and shot you a message or a comment? It's probably 20, 40, 50,000 people who don't look at it ain't like that ain't that you're like, well, he hot and keep on going because then we're like, well, I don't want to know, I don't know. That's why I don't, you know, get the big head, you know, saying, but try to keep it like, man, you just can't be around me if you ain't focused on your shit. You know, I'm saying it ain't nothing like I'm trying to be up to you or different on the motherfuckers is that, I'm focused on the goal. And if I was focused back then, maybe I would have been why I wanted to be, but I wasn't focused. And I'm saying, in order to be around me, I need you to be focused. You know, I'm saying, because one slip up everybody didn't, everybody goes to prison or something. You know, I'm saying because somebody's not doing something wrong. I mean, right, because somebody's not doing something right. Or somebody's slipping on their paper and I ain't in the time of my life to be losing my life because somebody was like this slipping. And this ping pong that you were talking about, like, you know, one foot in the streets, one foot in music, so to speak, eventually you do put both feet into music. Now, any other memories of those humble beginnings for you musically speaking that you'd like to share with the audience. Okay. Now, I do want to ask you this, when it comes to your process, you mentioned something like when I look at this paper, it's real. Sounds like you were a writer back then writing rhymes. Yeah, I guess back then when I was, you know what I'm saying, but that's not even like a guarantee or for me, no more. It used to be because now I could just go there and just go off the don't like Jimmy and Johnny, I didn't write that. That's my biggest song I have. I just went there and did it. I didn't write that. So at this point, are you just a freestyle punching in recording? Or are you still do both? I still do both. Okay. You don't want to get too far from the original of how you originally did it because one day you might have to go back and then you don't lost all your senses of how to do it. Now, you got to ask questions and shit. So let's zoom out here for a second. If there was a circle chart of 100 percent, what percentage writing for you now versus freestyle punching in of some sort? 50, 50, 60, 30 percent. Right. Send them the same punch here. So all this stuff, what they're going crazy over the positive stuff, I don't reach it. If it's recent, yeah, I didn't, I'm free started. So how do you decide that? Because you do? I was going to record it, and I, I decided off people reaction. Not just anybody like the people that sent my Of course, I'm sorry, go over there, but. I go about every action that they'll never put if they reactions like say like it might be something that I love and then everybody will be like, oh no, no, no, I guess I'll be like, oh, yeah, this is the one because everybody hated, I know it, I know it's the one. Y'all don't like it, yep, this is the one, you don't like it, oh, this is the one, for sure. Because everybody don't like it so I'm willing to take that chance to buck against it because I've tried it before and then everybody will be like, oh, bro, you was right, exactly. And that sounds like a similar occurrence on a topic of your biggest song in your career so far. Jimmy and Johnny. I was like, man, hell no, and they were like, yeah, yeah, y'all like man, hell no, I did it and it worked. So you're basically saying the opposite is the approach. If they don't like it, go with it. If they do like it some wrong way. No, no, no, hell no, no, no, don't do what I did. Do not make the same mistakes, buddy, don't do it like, I didn't say, I never said it worked. Actually, I would go against it. The shit never worked. That shit, let me start there. It never worked. It never, it never worked. I just did it. I like bucking. The system. That's just what I do. But the shit didn't work. I had to go back and listen to it. That's why we're here. Now, what about sonically speaking when you listen to your music because you do both, you write and freestyle and punch in, do you notice any difference sonically when you do do both? Yeah. Can you tell the difference? Oh, yeah. I wrote that. No, this was freestyle and punched in. Can you tell by listening to it, is there no hell, no? So you're that good? I mean, I can tell sometimes, but sometimes I can't have to be like, they have that right there. No, I ain't right there. Damn, my blank, you know, say, be like some shit like this. Because when it comes to writing, there are some when they recite what they wrote. It sounds like they're reading their lyrics while they're recording. And then for others, it's so natural because they're punching in so they got a little swag on it. So here's the thing when you do, if you wrote your shit, you should also press that shit in as well. So you can swag it up. Now, I gave you guys some little tips. Now, let me try to, I ain't shippin', I don't mind giving out the game. That's what I do. Mr. Free Game. Now, is it, Reese? Is it memorizing and punching those written rhymes down or is it, you're still reading it, you're just punching it in? And you can do both. I prefer you to memorize it and then go in there and do it like that because that way, you can swag it all the way out. Now because you were a writer at first, correct? In your history of music, you were writing at first. What led to you freestyling and punching and because not everybody does that? They might strictly just be a writer. Yeah. I was at Streeters X fucking with him. He said at one time, when I first started coming to Atlanta Streeters X and I was in a studio with some popular people or whatever and it was time for me to wrap up, so I'm in there and putting them on pad. They were like, oh no. Go on, who do that? And I did it. I was like, oh, it was like, I just kept doing it and it's time to go on. And I didn't like it at first because it might take it like three hours to do one song and that is preposterous for me, that's all I felt like, but the more you do it, the better you get at it. And now it's 70% of your creative style. And you mentioned previously in another portion of questions that your biggest song currently to date is Jimmy and Johnny and that was freestyled and punched in 100%. Because that is your biggest song, why not just freestyling punch in from here on out and continue on with that recipe? Well, I still, you're still 30% writing though, because when I write, I can get more to details about what I'm talking about, suppose with me punching in and just going off with motions of what I feel right now, that's the difference. Did you ever do talent shows back in the day? Did you ever do open mics as well? Negative. Didn't do any of that. So I'm saying, man, I wasn't ever going to be no rapper, man, I was just, shit, man. I thought I was going to be a robber or a professional kingpin on some shit, you know, but hey, God's has other, other plans. And also one more question here before we wind down about your origin story. You mentioned some siblings here. Care to share how many you had in total? I got one brother and one sister. Same mother and father for all three of you? You know, my sister got a different daddy and I got one brother through Marys. Okay. And you mentioned an uncle here did some music himself. Was that the only musical family member besides yourself? That's it. How far did he get musically? He ain't really, he was just testing it out, saying what. He didn't, I would you say, after time, he just said, fuck it. So he no longer does music anymore? No, he just said, fuck it. Have you two ever collaborated? You know, by the time I really started doing music, he was like, fuck it. What's his opinion of your music at this point? He loves it. He loves it. Do you want to share what his previous stage name was by any chance? JVL. And would you call him any sort of inspiration for you at all? Yeah, yeah. Shit. That's how I got my first gun. I took, I stole it from him. That's how I knew how to break the mother fucker down, he showed me. Shit. You ain't hear about my whole life change when I stole that gun from Uncle Jason, shit. Everything. Got a lot of inspiration for my Uncle Jason. Now, ask you a lot of questions here in regards to your upbringing. Ask you your top point, ask you your bottom point. Is there anything else you'd like to share in regards to your upbringing? You're raising in Charlotte. Just curious there. And speaking of Charlotte, do you want to ask you one last topic here before you depart? And that is your city, okay? Now, circumstances could be different for everyone. But there may be someone in the audience, well you know what, let me rephrase that. Circumstances could be different for everyone. Or can you give the audience now five tips for anyone visiting Charlotte? They've heard about it. First time going to visit, is there anything you'd like to inform them on before they do so? Right. Number one. If you want to snort powder, stay out of your cream. If you don't and snort powder, stay out of your cream. Stay out of your cream if you don't snort powder. Number one. Number two. Stay away from them after I was spots. Number two. Stay away from after I was spots. If you're not from right here and you just die here, stay the fuck away from after I was spots. Number two. Number three. Keep your pipe on you at all times. I don't care how good the bitch looks. You go to the bitch to keep that blower on you anywhere. There's another nigga, mine had a key, he just ain't been over there in three months. He probably had his main bitch crib, that's the side bitch, it's just number four. If you got a number four. Yeah. The food in Charlotte is trash. Trash. Now you got a few little restaurants, you got you got cuddles, you got EVE, shit like that. But don't be coming to Charlotte expecting everybody to be like, "Yeah, yeah." Nothing food, nothing big, no, the food is trash. And number five. We got the sweetest laws ever. You can kill a nigga and get right back out. But if you get caught with a diamond fentanyl, get your ass. And speaking of these two establishments, care to share what you order whenever you visit either of those. Where? No. Care to share what you order. Your plate look like whenever you visit either of those establishments. I get the, uh, I get the, um, the lemon pepper wings with the lobster mat from Cuzon's, from Cuzon's Cuzon's knees or my cousin, the EVE, everybody eats. My favorite shit, I used to get the pie and have a boat a lot. But she switched to the menu up so food, she switched it up, so you just never know her. But my shit, she, you know, I come, I come get the, matter of fact, when I get, I'm going like the jug or the fuck, what's that shit like a blue lemonade or some shit? Listen, listen, it's hair on and then shit. You got to have it. I promise you should have you like this, but straight up. And, uh, you mentioned, uh, you know, these females, uh, possible set up scenario and things that nature there, uh, which you mean that was tip number three, tip number three, yeah, possible set up through a female. That's the best to give a new game like, don't be got them trusting these holes, thinking they won't get you there, but you know, just go down and you're thinking that the hole is trying to set up a nigga that come do it, you roll that bushel ass and do what they sell. Have you ever been a victim to that sort of thing before? Um, I've been a victim, but not like that victim like, I had this one bitch, shh, shh, shh. You going to read this bitch, you think I don't know. I don't know, bitch. I know you. you got me. You think I don't know. Uh, was one bitch, uh, what happened? I, I, I know, I know I had some money. I know. I know I had some money. My fucking pocket woke up, walked into the dough for a minute. It was over. Went back in the crib, laid down, woke up. Thought, what if I have that money? It was not like this. Like, fuck, I let it get up out of your bitch. I know you got that money, bitch. Cool. I got another bitch. She going to go up there. I can like, she did this bit, yeah, yeah. You fucking jurid thief bitch. The bitch stole my chain. I had to got them threatening to blow the mom house up and shit. I'm going to blow your mom house up. Bitch stole my chain. You got to put my shit in the mailbox. I got Jack before buy some bitches. This chain in particular. She got the chain and that and I had, I had a road. She got all my shit. She had all that shit. I had to got them. Hey, bitch. I blew your machine. No, I was, I was serious. What the fuck? This bitch is going to say she accidentally put it in her pocket, but she was grabbed. How the fuck you accidentally still up to jurid thief? No, I mean, I just be on point with shit now because I don't bring, I don't got got it. Did that, how much money do you think was in that pocket of yours before? She probably had like a cup of towels. She's not like a cup of towels. She's down. Did you confront her about this? No, because I don't know. I don't know, like, I know, but I don't know because I didn't see her, but I know because I know I had it. Right? The mystery continues. I know it went down bitch. I know, I know you did it. I know you did it. But, but the thing is, though, see. Niggas, so dirty. I ain't even tripped because we had a, we had a fun night. I knuttered at her. She didn't come back pregnant. So I was like, well, maybe she probably, she could have used that money for a boyfriend, a plan B, anything. So I looked at it like, I took it as like what shit. I didn't even trade and even swaffer. I even trade. At least you ain't got them come out with the motherfucking baby by slut. I think everybody had the baby by slut. And at least you ain't get the baby by the new slut. She just took the nigga last week and you up in the, in the picture like this. That, I guess I just took two for one. [BLANK_AUDIO]

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Ad-libs add energy and personality to songs, often making listeners connect more deeply with the artist despite not liking the main track.
  2. The artist uses a spontaneous, intuitive approach to ad-libs, removing them if they don’t resonate, and has no formal strategy beyond instinct and audience feedback.
  3. Specific ad-libs like “You lie” and “Huh” are signature elements, with “Huh” being widely recognized and used by many artists, though the artist’s version is unique in tone and delivery.

Summary:

Ad-libs are a vital, personal touch in music, giving songs authenticity and emotional depth. The artist emphasizes that while they don’t follow a structured strategy, they rely on instinct and audience reaction—removing ad-libs that don’t resonate. Their signature phrases like “You lie” and “Huh” have become iconic, with “Huh” being widely adopted across the industry, though the artist’s version stands out in tone and delivery.

He reflects on how these ad-libs stem from his playful, sarcastic, and defensive personality, shaped by years of navigating hardship, including frequent evictions and familial struggles. This personality is deeply rooted in his upbringing in Charlotte, where survival, resilience, and humor were essential tools. He credits his success to personal grit, faith, and a refusal to give up, even during tough times like prison or poverty.

Music became a lifeline, beginning with early influences from his uncle, who introduced him to rapping. Over time, he evolved from casual freestyle to a balanced approach, combining written rhymes and freestyle, with a 50-50 split. He notes that audience feedback—especially when a song is disliked—often signals which version is most authentic.

Ultimately, ad-libs represent more than sound; they’re a reflection of his identity, resilience, and connection to real-life challenges.

FAQs

Ad-libs add energy and personality to a song, helping listeners connect with the artist on a deeper level. Even if they don't like the song overall, many people love the ad-libs for their authenticity and uniqueness.

Yes, I'm known for ad-libs like 'You lie' and 'Huh'. The 'Huh' has become particularly popular and is often associated with my style and voice.

I can't pinpoint one exact song, but I remember making a joke like 'you lie' during a session, and when it sounded good, I kept it. It was a spontaneous moment that stuck.

Yes, many artists use ad-libs in various forms—like 'Huh', 'chills', or 'on'—so it's not unique to me. Everyone has their own version, but the spirit of using them is shared across the industry.

No, I never do that. I believe it takes away from the authenticity of the artist’s voice and could mislead listeners into thinking I wrote it.

I record them spontaneously and then listen back. If I don’t like them, I remove them. It’s a simple process of instinct and trust in the moment.

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